Land Rover revealed a redesigned Range Rover this week, with the new fifth-generation model to arrive at dealerships next spring as a 2022 model. While the exterior styling hasn’t changed all that much, underneath is a new platform that supports battery-electric powertrains and perhaps eventually hydrogen-electric powertrains. 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Chevrolet’s new Corvette Z06 […]
We’re back for another installment of EV Morning! You know what to do…grab yourself a cup of something hot and settle in for the news. We’ve a trillion reasons for you to tune in…so stick around for the details! Tesla news It’s been a busy few days over at Elon’s place. Let’s jump straight into the incredible news that Tesla’s stock valuation
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The recent Amazon 10-Q SEC filling reveals that, as of the end of Q3, the company owns about a fifth of Rivian – the electric vehicle startup, known mostly for the Rivian R1T/Rivian R1S models. Bloomberg (via Teslarati) reports that the Amazon’s stake is worth as much as $3.8 billion (it was $2.7 billion at the
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Lion Electric announced that ih as received a conditional purchase order for 1,000 LionC electric school buses from Student Transportation of Canada (STC). If confirmed, it could be the largest order of its kind (even bigger than the 260 LionC order from First Student), but the agreement depends on incentives: “The purchase order is conditional
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When The General’s Buick Division axed the LeSabre and Park Avenue names in 2005 (after 46 and 30 years, respectively, though the Park Avenue returned a few years later in China), the replacement top-of-the-line Buick sedan became the new Lucerne. It wasn’t the Buick with the biggest price tag that year— those honors went to
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WASHINGTON — A $1.75 trillion Democratic spending proposal could give a big boost to electric vehicles especially to Detroit’s Big Three automakers and the U.S. Postal Service, but it faces opposition from Republicans, foreign automakers, Canada and Mexico. The House plan boosts electric vehicle credits to up to $12,500 per vehicle, including $4,500 for union-made
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Another famous race car is being brought back to life in continuation form, this one a bit further afield than the Jaguars and Bentleys we’ve seen of late. England’s CNC Motorsport AWS is building three Ford Sierra RS500 racers that campaigned in the British Touring Car Championship in the 1980s. CNC has chosen the 1990
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Like many automakers, Ford brings a fleet of concept vehicles to the annual SEMA show to advertise their aftermarket potential. Scheduled for November 2-5, the 2021 SEMA show is no different. A Ford press release said more than 40 modified vehicles will be on display, but this year the emphasis seems to be on the
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Toyota on Friday revealed a whole lot more about its upcoming fully electric SUV, the 2022 bZ4X, which leads a lineup of “bZ” EVs and is described as “overturning the common idea that electrified vehicles are tedious.” From a yoke not entirely unlike the one Tesla introduced earlier this year on the Model S Plaid
There is no shortage of fun-looking electric vehicles on Alibaba, the mystical and sometimes downright oddball Chinese shopping site. And while I normally find something decidedly more land-loving for my Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, this week we’re going to get a bit wet. So grab some sunblock, inflate your arm
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